================ Fedora Elections =============== * What is fedora-election? fedora-elections is a web application written in python and based on flask. It implements the Range Voting system (http://rangevoting.org). This project was developed using fedoraproject requests, but, can be easily adapted to other projects. Fedora-elections is integrated with the Fedora Account System (FAS). Running from a checkout: ======================= Install Prerequisites --------------------- Before launching fedora-elections, the following packages should be installed: - httpd - libxslt - python - python-backports-ssl_match_hostname - python-bunch - python-chardet - python-fedora - python-fedora-flask - python-flask - python-flask-sqlalchemy - python-flask-wtf - python-jinja2 - python-kitchen - python-lxml - python-openid - python-ordereddict - python-ordereddict - python-setuptools - python-simplejson - python-six - python-sqlalchemy0.7 - python-urllib3 - python-wtforms Get the source code ------------------- You can obtain the code from github: https://github.com/fedora-infra/elections.git git clone https://github.com/fedora-infra/elections.git Configure the application ------------------------- cd fedora_elections ../configure.py --install-conf=${PWD%/*} --install-data=${PWD%/*} --shared-state=${PWD%/*} This will create createdb, fedora-elections.cfg, fedora-elections.wsgi and http-fedora-elections.conf. Modify fedora-elections.cfg to change FAS_PASSWORD to the correct password. Create a database ----------------- Copy development.cfg.sample to development.cfg. Review the file and make changes as appropriate. Run: ./createdb Starting the Application ------------------------ There are 2 ways to start the application: o without http o with http * How to start without http on localhost:5000: cd elections ./runserver * How to start with http Next copy the httpd-pkgdb.conf file to your apache conf.d directory: sudo cp httpd-fedora-elections.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/. Restart apache: sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart * How to contribute If you find bug or want to propose ideas or stuff to be implemented or if you are interested to became a developer for this project just ask on #fedora-admin irc channel on irc.freenode.net or use our web site https://fedorahosted.org/elections. * Licence fedora-elections is licenced under GPL v2.